Michael Barone

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

That’s the title of New York University Law Professor Richard Epstein’s blogpost on the difficulty of implementing Obamacare. It’s as good a summary as I’ve seen of the problems faced by an administration headed by a president who prefers campaigning to governing and who finds...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

On Morning Joe this morning, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell delivered a strong reaction to the news that the IRS targeted Tea Party groups beginning in 2011, calling it “one of the most outrageous excesses I’ve seen in all my years in journalism.” Mitchell explained that Americans have to...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

On FOX News last night, former Vice President Dick Cheney explained to Sean Hannity that he was concerned about the reports of the IRS targeting conservative and tea party groups. “I think it’s very dangerous,” Cheney said, theorizing that the sensitivity of the IRS activity would...

Brian Hughes

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

The Justice Department admitted Monday that it secretly seized phone records from the Associated Press in its attempt to track down a damaging press leak, further rattling a White House already on the defensive over its handling of the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attacks and new revelations that...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Irate lawmakers vowed Monday to hold congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service after the tax agency admitted that it closely scrutinized the tax-exempt status of conservative groups that opposed President Obama and other Democrats. The Republican-run House Ways and Means Committee...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

President Obama had “no knowledge” that the Justice Department obtained two months of Associated Press reporters’ phone records, his spokesman said today. “Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP,” White...

Byron York

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

The Internal Revenue Service scandal would be bad enough if the IRS just handled issues like collecting income taxes and granting nonprofit status. But the immensely powerful federal agency is about to become even more powerful with the arrival of national health care, and that makes the...

Philip Klein

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

On Monday afternoon, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had “secretly obtained two months of telephone records” from 20 phone lines assigned to reporters and editors from the global news organization. The shocking revelation comes on top of news that the IRS...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

On “Meet the Press” Sunday, New York Times columnist David Brooks explained that the recent news about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups would be a major story in upcoming days, pointing out that the Obama administration was facing another political scandal. “[T]his IRS story is going...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013

Pat Smith, the mother of one of the victims of the Benghazi consulate attacks, went on the Huckabee show yesterday to deliver a message to Hillary Clinton. "I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother's Day," she said. "She has her child. I don't have mine because of her." Huckabee...